Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis